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ERROR 0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0

My apologies in advance if I have posted in the wrong forum (and feel free to move my post to the more appropriate forum (or delete my post and send a PM as to where to post)).

My PC is dead, but this is NOT an emergency as this is a very non-essential PC. I posted here only because it seemed like the most appropriate forum.

This is a 5 or 6 year old (more or less) Gateway All-In-One, Intel P4. OS is (was) Windows XP (probably home but I'm not certain). On startup I get the following screen (tapping F8 to attempt to start in the safe mode does not make any difference):

You could try reseating the ribbon cable at both motherboard and hard drive connectors. Usually though, if it's a cable problem the drive is simply not detected. In this case, the drive is detected but the BIOS is indicating the drive does not function.

After my HHD have crashed, I bought SSD (both have IDE). BIOS at boot give same message, but I put bootable cd and boot into SSD. Hard disk I can boot using cd (uncomfortable solution), but I don't know why BIOS show this message. BIOS also show my new hard disk number, but can't boot it by itself.

After my HHD have crashed, I bought SSD (both have IDE). BIOS at boot give same message, but I put bootable cd and boot into SSD. Hard disk I can boot using cd (uncomfortable solution), but I don't know why BIOS show this message. BIOS also show my new hard disk number, but can't boot it by itself.

Looks like the SSD is on wrong IDE connection possibly, or needs a new boot sector to boot from. Did you make a system image, and do you have a spare HD that can hold your data???

There is no SSD that I saw with an IDE connection, so perhaps you are using an adapter. That is certainly not an ideal solution for the typical reasons of buying an SSD, so if you have SATA II ports available, you should be using that.

Moving on, did you image the SSD with a fresh copy of Windows? If not, I'd start there.

Hard drives (of any type) do not come with an operating system installed on them. When you install a brand new hard drive, you need to install an OS on it before your computer will work (unless you're installing a secondary drive just to store data, but that's not what you're doing)

If you're booting from a CD/DVD/USB flash drive/etc., by definition, it means you're not booting off the hard drive. If the only way to boot the computer is from CD, that means you either don't have an Operating System installed on your hard drive, the OS install on your hard drive is damaged or the hard drive itself is damaged. Based off what you posted, I'd say it's the first thing I listed, you haven't installed an Operating System on the drive yet.